Hi, On Fri, 2025-08-15 at 00:23 +0200, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: > Opening an MR without having contacted me *prior to the fact* is the > definition of a code dump. I do not care about code, I can very well > write it myself in the first place. [...] > If sending an e-mail is too much for them, well, too bad, they were not > all that interested in improving the package in the first place to stop > at such a trivial requirement.
A principled opposition to apply patches or fix issues because the author did not jump to an arbitrary set of hoops set up by a maintainer seems like a bad idea. Enough security issues were not fixed or only fixed much later because vendors insisted on such things. I hope Debian can do better. Ansgar
